Cursos PADI

Buceo en Bayahibe, Republica Dominicana

Some of our favorite dive sites are just located a moments boat ride from the beach shop. With in several minutes on the boat we can be diving at a great variety of sites such as:

#1-2 Catalina Wall and Aquarium: “The Wall”- Drop off to 50 m / 150 ft with nice Gorgonians. “Aquarium”- Great site to see sea horses, rays, lobster, and moray eels. Note: These two dive sites are frequented by many dive operators!

#4 Dreams Shallow: This a is a very shallow site, but perfect for those begining there diving experience. The site is just a moment from the show and a maximum depth of 5 meters. The site is loaded with a variety of hard and soft corals, enough to keep you amazed for the whole dive. The marine life here is plentiful with boxfish, fussiliers, damselfish, and coralfish. Don’t be surprised if you hear some boats around, its normal here, but don’t worry you are nice and safe with a signaling device right above us the whole dive.

#6 Magallanes: A nice shore dive and confined water environment. Moving to both the S.E and N.W there is fringing coral reef spreading to a sandy bottom. Loaded with marine life and soft corals this provides a great place to explore the Caribbean in our very backyard. Maximum depth is about 10 meters with several swim thoughs and keep your eyes out for nudibranches, because they are all over the place. Other marine life includes: Rays, Boxfish, Damselfish, Seurgen Major, small barracuda, trumpetfish, angelfish and spiney sea shells.

#7 Viva Shallow: With a maximum depth of 10 meters (with a shovel) this is a great site for those who really want to see some great marine live. The dive begins with an easy decent to 6 meters and then a short swim along the sandy bottom to a 3 meter high coral wall, we swim along the base of this wall for 20 mins finding spotted rays, lionfish, angel fish, reef octopus, large trumpet fish and even the occaisional sailfish is spotted. On our return to the boat we go up the wall and come across beautiful sponges and coral spotted with little peach nudibranchs and box fish. The dive ends with a underwater muesum of cannons and even a large anchor.

#12-13 Guaraguao I and Guaraguao II: The corals at these dive sites are healthy with predominantely hard corals, gorgonians and sponges populating the reefs. Small critters abound, especially arrowhead crabs, green anemones, pedersen shrimps, fire worms, sea cucumbers, hermitage crabs, etc. A good place to dive slowly looking for the small stuff. Do not leave behind your macro photography setup!

#16 Aquarium (Peñon): The coral reef known as “The Aquarium”, also know as Peñon, situated in the “Parque Nacional del Este”, received its name from local and international divers who thought they were in an aquarium when they dived in and around the reef such was the great variety of colorful species that call this particular diving spot home. The reef is populated with an impressive amount of marine life. There are moray eels watching from their underwater caves, manta rays that elegantly glide through the clear-blue waters and countless schools of fish everywhere. In short, the coral reefs found in the National Park offer divers – even beginners – an unforgettable experience. This particular diving site is some 12 meters deep.

#20 Parguera: Another excellent diving site is “La Parguera,” some 17 meters deep, found near Saona Island, off the coast of La Romana. This particular diving site is known for a population of large fish. Divers can sometimes run into the inoffensive cat shark. Turtles, and an occasional old tortoise, are also common sights.

#21 El Faro: El Faro is perfectly suitable for beginners as it has a depth of about 15 meters (50 feet). It is easily one of the best location in all of the Dominican Republic to see barracudas. Once you descend, you will be able to view also stingrays in their natural habitat as you make your way through a seascape of peaks and valleys along the ocean floor. As stingray are docile and tend to relax by lying motionless in the sea floor it is easy to inspect them up close – bring a waterproof camera for pictures you won’t be able to take anywhere else. This dive is normally run in conjunction with Parguera.

#22 Shark Point: Another great exploration site for divers of all skill levels is Shark Point. It is also a destination for day tours (*some tours will hit both sites in one day). Shark Point's depth is some 25 meters (75 feet), but most tours will get divers acclimated by hitting the more shallow location first. Reef sharks tend to swim the perimeter and “patrol” the site; there are numerous caverns to explore and many ancient corals that are home to bottom dwelling nurse sharks, eels, octopus and giant manta rays – no shortage of things to see here!

GO PRIVATE en Bayahibe, Republica Dominicana

Coral Point has specialized in personal/private scuba diving, which means that you as a client are central in all what we do. After many years of experience in the diving industry, we recognise that there is a need for a more personalized approach within a dive resort. This is why we customize scuba diving courses and daily certified dive trips to meet the needs of our important customers. The visit to our Coral Regrowth Project is the highlight of our all Private Packages.

Wreck Diving

Bayahibe offers some great wrecks just a few monents boat ride from our beach shop, explore either the Atlanic Princess or the infamous St. George...

Parque Nacional del Este

This park is the most studied marine site in the Dominican Republic The basal substrate for
these formations is consolidated carbonate reef as well as sediments and rubble.
The reefs of Parque Nacional del Este are basically low relief systems, found
either as fringing, small deep (20-30 m deep) patches, or banks. Most are on the
leeward side, protected by a land mass of Pleistocene and Recent reef terraces.
Southeasterly trade winds are dominant. The reef on the leeward side has two
distinct areas, one along the southern coast of Saona Island and inﬂuenced by
oceanic currents, and the more protected one along the western side of the
Catuano Passage. The bottoms of the Saona reefs are consolidated hard bottoms
and octocorals. Sponges dominate the benthic communities. Hard corals are
abundant only at speciﬁc places where they are concentrated, forming small
and dispersed coral patches. Here the waves and currents are strong and in
part are responsible for sculpturing these reefs. The reefs west of Catuano are
basically sandy bottoms with patch reefs. Large amounts of sediments and
biogenic sands are transported from the Catuano Passage and deposited along
this coastline towards the west. Large seagrass meadows cover most of the very
nearshore areas. Corals grow mostly in patches at a depth of 12 to 30 m. Further
west, away from the inﬂuences of the Catuano Passage, coral patches increase
in frequency and grow as deep-water fringing reefs. These are the most common
reef structures of the southern coast of the Dominican Republic.